A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries [With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . mes Wemyss of Wemyss, anddied at Edinburgh, 24th January 1803. 11. William, seventeenth Earl ofSutherland, was born 28th May 1735, and showed avery early predilection for the militaryprofession, as indicated in the followingjuvenile epistle (c. 1743) sent in his nameto his father :—? My Dear Papa,—I wrote you be-fore and hoped for the honour of an may tell yow I can exercise verywell. So now I want a comision. I can read th
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries [With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . mes Wemyss of Wemyss, anddied at Edinburgh, 24th January 1803. 11. William, seventeenth Earl ofSutherland, was born 28th May 1735, and showed avery early predilection for the militaryprofession, as indicated in the followingjuvenile epistle (c. 1743) sent in his nameto his father :—? My Dear Papa,—I wrote you be-fore and hoped for the honour of an may tell yow I can exercise verywell. So now I want a comision. I can read the newspapers. I am gladof Admiral Vernons meeting with the Spaniards. (O Papa, our Spanishhorse is sick.) Papa, if I were big enough you may tell the King I willfight very well. Mama made a boy break my head at cudgell-playing, buttho it was sore, I did not cry. She has given me a new Highland coat,and Jenny Dott s sewing very fine sarks to me. God bless you, Papa. Myservice to James Andirson. Bettekins gives hers to you.—I am youraffectionit son and obedient slave. Strathnaver. He remained for a short time in Edinburgh, for educational purposes,. THE DUCHESS-COUNTESS 533 under the charge of Lady Baird of Newbyth; and in the spring of 1745he was sent to Winchester, from which he appears to have been removed,in December 1746, to Harrow, of which Dr. Thomas Thackeray, great-grandfather of the novelist, was then head-master. On the death of his father in France, in December 1750, Lord Strath-naver became seventeenth Earl of Sutherland when only fifteen years ofage. His own wish appears to have been to attend a Scottish University,but under the advice of General St. Clair he was enrolled a student atGottingen, where he remained for several years. He returned to Londonin 1755; and towards the end of the following year we find him atDunrobin. In 1759 he received a commission from the King to raise abattalion of Highlanders, of which he was to have the command; and twoyears late
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